Technology Auditor/Senior Technology Auditor

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven't stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We're always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon. It's core to our DNA and we haven't stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic, and environmental progress. We're always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Are you ready to apply your audit, risk, technology, and governance expertise towards PGE's exciting and sustainable future? To help enable this transformation, we are seeking an experienced Technology Auditor or Senior Technology Auditor to join Internal Audit Services. This is an opportunity to apply your IT, OT (operational technology), cyber security, and business process acumen to execute risk-driven and advisory engagements that provide visibility and value-driven results across the organization. In this role you can contribute to the future of PGE's assurance and advisory practices across a variety of emerging risks, areas of growth, operational practices, compliance requirements, SOX/financial disciplines, and technology areas.

To be a part of our integrated Internal Audit Services team encompassing technology, safety, and financial/operations, we are looking for a candidate with demonstrated, exceptional verbal and written communication skills, risk acumen, and passion for value-added results.

PGE supports career progression, and this role will be filled at the level commensurate with the successful candidate's applicable skills and experience at either the Technology Auditor or Senior Technology Auditor level.

KeyScope and Areas of Impact:

For Senior Technology Auditor

• Leads planning and fieldwork for assurance and advisory engagements, developing test procedures, gathering, and analyzing data, processes, presentations, metrics, and other documentation, performing complex research,documenting workpapers and analysis, and coordinating and reviewing the work of others to meet engagement quality and timelines.

• Drafts objective, clear, and concise reports over engagement results, recommending risk mitigation and/or process improvements.

For Technology Auditor

• Supports assurance and advisory engagements by performing prescribed assignments, including developing process/data flows, control assessment, interview and workpaper documentation, and data review and analysis.

• Performs testing according to fieldwork procedures, including completing workpaper documentation efficiently and effectively, identifying exceptions, and communicating results to the engagement team.

For Both Levels

• Provides timely client communication on engagement status, risk mitigation, and conclusions, including difficult and complex outcomes when necessary.

• Designs effective and efficient control test procedures and performs control testing to enable management to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.

• Monitors their own progress using project management skills to ensure work is completed timely.

• Proactively engages with management on tracking and validating client mitigations and other activities to resolve previously identified engagement risk results.

• Performs a variety of individual and department administrative tasks and participates in internal process improvement initiatives.

• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) IT general controls, including control walkthroughs, testing, and validations is preferred.

• Experience with technology risk frameworks such as NIST, ISO, or CobIT is preferred.

• Knowledge and understanding of the Institute of Internal Auditors' Global Internal Audit Standards for planning, performing, and reporting on assurance and advisory engagements is preferred.

What you will bring to this role:

• For both the Technology Auditor and Senior Technology Auditor roles, a Bachelor's degree in finance, computer science, liberal arts or other related field or equivalent experience is required.

• For a Senior Technology Auditor, five or more years in business, internal auditing, technology, public accounting, or related functions.For a Technology Auditor, at least two years similar experience.

• Professional licenses/certifications preferred and may be required within one year of obtaining position (CISA, CISSP). Other audit certifications a plus (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE,etc.).

• Experience conducting technology control and process engagements from planning to fieldwork through reporting - along with a basic understanding and application of project management techniques.

• Skilled at interacting with a variety of technical and non-technical functional areas and clients and negotiating and resolving differences around simple to complex and sometimes challenging risks.

• A willingness to learn about PGE functional areas that may be unfamiliar, research and understand emerging technologies and regulatory topics, and apply the learnings.

• Proficient use of Microsoft applications. Data analysis tool knowledge is a plus.

• Effective communication skills to foster collaboration, build relationships, and drive results through constructive discussions.

Physical and Cognitive Demands

• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks

• Ability to follow accuracy standards

• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress

• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback

• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement

• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks

• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization

• Demonstrates sound memory

• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

Physical

• Does the job require a valid driver's license - no

• Computer use entire shift

• Office environment - hybrid - 3 days per week in office required

Compensation Range:

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.

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